“If everybody likes you, you’re pretty dull.”

We movie stars all end up by ourselves. Who knows? Maybe we want to.

You know what nostalgia is, don’t you? It’s basically a matter of recalling the fun without reliving the pain.

I want to die with my high heels on, still in action.

The world’s all full of thoughts about wars and space, and tragedies to the world. That’s what writers are thinking about because that’s what the world is thinking about.

As a female I think it’s a terrible hindrance in business. I think it’s a terrible hindrance for any female to have a lot of intelligence in private life, but I think in business sometimes it’s even worse because there’s deep resentment.

Mother of three; divorcee; American. Twenty years experience as an actress in motion pictures. Mobile still and more affable than rumour would have it. Wants steady employment in Hollywood. (Has had Broadway). References upon request.

It’s a rare man who can stand being around an intelligent woman, let alone married to her.

I’d luv to kiss ya, but I just washed my hair.

The real female should be partly male and the real male should be partly female anyway.

Pray to God and say the lines.

What a fool I was to come to Hollywood where they only understand platinum blondes and where legs are more important than talent.

The only way you can become a legend is in your coffin

Success only breeds a new goal

My passions were all gathered together like fingers that made a fist. Drive is considered aggression today; I knew it then as purpose.

I’ve lost my faith in science.

I may not have been wearing a mink coat, but I was traveling with a dog. That should have made you think I was an actress!

All this world’s noise appears to me a dull, ill-acted comedy!

Facts are what pedantic, dull people have instead of opinions.

I know that you should always say yes to adventures or you’ll lead a very dull life.

Business could not make dull, nor passion wild; Who saw life steadily, and saw it whole.

There is nothing that dulls a personality so much as a negative outlook.

It is widely held that too much wine will dull a man’s desire. Indeed it will…in a dull man.

In other people’s company I felt I was dull, gloomy, unwelcome, at once bored and boring.

What America demands in her black champions is a brilliant, powerful body and a dull, bestial mind.